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Title: Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing As Metophor for the Spiritual Quest by Julius Evola, Guido Stucco ISBN: 0-89281-657-0 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for Sunday strollers
Comment: This slim volume is collection of brief essays and magazine articles thematically centered on, as the title states, Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest.
A few of the articles are dated, but the rest are gems. What Evola means by the spiritual quest is not the stuff of New Age fantasy or the gooey sentimentality of religiosity.
Evola's prose in these essays is clear and direct. He manages to give us a glimpse into a harsh and rarefied world of transcendent beauty. This book may be the best introduction to Evola for those who are not yet prepard for his more scholarly, esoteric and demanding writings.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Rarefied and Lofty Evola
Comment: Loftiness, elevation, height-a leitmotiv in all Evola's books. This work bespeaks his passion for mountain-climbing and lends itself as a metaphor for a life of striving towards increasingly higher goals. An excellent introduction to the Italian philosopher, and a highly enjoyable read in its own right.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good edition of an important book
Comment: America seems to be the country where there the translation of Evola's works is marching on faster than anywhere else. Surprisingly this tendency started at the same time as the breakdown of the Communist superpower. Are now even Americans for a future beyond Americanism? Another leading role for the American translations in the "Inner Traditions" series is the beautifulness of the covers, the cheapness of the books, the including of an index - the only thing lacking is the bibliographic information regarding the collected articles which build this book - and much more important the quality of the translations. Guido Stucco has done a fine job again and he has shown in his preface to "The Yoga of Power" his insight into the Evolian thinking: "Evola pointed the way to a steep and solitary path that in my view is still a valid alternative to both the path of koinonia - of human fellowship, which contemporary society has been promoting for the past thirty years - and the spiritualized bourgeois individualism promoted by the New Age movement."
This solitary path can wind his way to the peak of a mountain as this book shows. The spiritual dimension lies first and mainly in the act of climbing, but then expands to the legends connected with the mountains and the experience of the elements - ice and storm, rain and sun. Evola's ashes returned after his dead to his beloved Mount Rosa, to be buried in the eternal ice: the ascend to the peak as a symbol of resurrection. The modern opposition to this experience of transfiguration is symbolzied in skiing: "In skiing the modern spirit finds itself essentially at home; this modern spirit is intoxicated with speed, with constant change, with acceleration." With this book the reader lets this modern spirit behind and reaches to those heights, where ice and light unite in eternal joy.
Martin Schwarz
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Title: Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola ISBN: 089281506X Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul by Julius Evola, Joscelyn Godwin, Constance Fontana ISBN: 0892811250 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Magic: Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus by Julius Evola, UR Group, Renato Del Ponte ISBN: 0892816244 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 07 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way by Julius Evola, Guido Stucco ISBN: 0892813687 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist by Julius Evola, Guido Stucco, Michael Moynihan, Joscelyn Godwin ISBN: 0892819057 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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